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"Are you afraid, carissima," said Drusus, lifting her into his chariot, "to ride back with me to the palace, through that wolf pack?" "With you?" she said, admiring the ease with which he sprang about in full armour; "I would laugh at Medusa or the Hydra of Lerna with you beside me." Cleomenes had been again upon the housetop to watch the progress of the fire.
"You cannot suppose," she answered earnestly she seemed incapable of apprehending irony or jest, "that I should wish you more like others than you are. Whatever may happen hereafter, I shall always feel myself the happiest of women in having belonged to one who cares for something beside himself, and holds even life cheaper than love." "I hope so, carissima.
I will give thee back to Pomponia, and take thee from her hands afterward. But, O carissima, have no further fear of me. Christ has not washed me yet, but ask Peter if on the way hither I have not told him my wish to be a real confessor of Christ, and begged him to baptize me, even in this hut of a quarryman. Believe, and let all believe me." Lygia heard these words with radiant face.
Virgil here has ceased to be his guide; but Beatrice, robed in celestial loveliness, conducts him from circle to circle, and explains the sublimest doctrines and resolves his mortal doubts, the object still of his adoration, and inferior only to the mother of our Lord, regina angelorum, mater carissima, whom the Church even then devoutly worshipped, and to whom the greatest sages prayed.
When the door was closed, Nina threw herself across the bed, still hardly able to credit her senses. Giovanni had asked her, Nina, to be his wife, not half an hour before he still had the effrontery to hope for a change in her answer. He had dared to tell her that he loved her, he had dared to call her, too, "Carissima!"
Oh, mees! my heart, my life, all arra youairs, an' I lay my life at youair foot." "I think it would be far more kind if you would put a chair at poor Kitty's feet," retorted Minnie, with some show of temper. "But, oh, carissima, tink de wild wood noting here no, noting not a chair only de straw." "Then you had no business to bring me here. You might have known that there were no chairs here.
"Nay, Madre carissima; thou art still before all others with thy wayward son." "Yet my wish for thee of France thou dost pass by," she interrupted eagerly. "It is but for duty to the Casa Cornaro, in which thou wouldst be last to see me fail, dear Lady of Venice!" She laid her hand upon his arm as if she would constrain him. "Tell me," she urged.
"Carissima mia!" cried the doctor, "I thought I had convinced you that the world is by no means come to its last legs." "Oh, I did not mean anything, Alphonso," said Mrs. Riccabocca, colouring. "And that is all we do mean when we talk about that of which we can know nothing," said the doctor, less gallantly than usual, for he resented that epithet of "old-fashioned," as applied to the watch.
"Carissima, do not grieve so; we shall be back soon, and travelling is expensive; rolling stones gather no moss, and there is so much to see to at home." Mrs. Riccabocca gently escaped from her husband's arm. She withdrew her hands from her face and brushed away the tears that stood in her eyes. "Alphonso," she said touchingly, "hear me! What you think good, that shall ever be good to me.
Yvonne put her arms around the child and kissed her gently. "We shall meet again soon, cara mia." "I know in Heaven," cried Stella, refusing to be comforted. "We shall find you again, child, never fear," said Yvonne. Stella's eyes brightened. "Then you will return?" Yvonne patted her cheek softly. "Have I not said I will see you again, carissima?" she finished.
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